25% wolf
25% German shepherd
25% lab
12.5% blue heeler
12.5% chow chow

i appreciate it most times but its starting to annoy me to the point i just ignore him and kick him out of my room.

Hi everyone! I recently just moved and my dog, who is overall well behaved, needs to be kept out of certain rooms. The problem is our doors. All the doors in our new house are custom so every door thing I’ve tested does not work. Currently we have boxes and heavy items stacked against the door to keep it open but not enough for him to get in. It needs to be open for our cats. I need some help in finding a solution to keep him out of said room.
He is a boarder collie and poodle mix. Please give recommendations

Not we will not be cutting holes in the door for a cat door.

Not sure if allowed, but anyone recently gotten a chewy mailer with one of those $20 off codes they’re not using?? I have to make a big purchase for my pup! TIA!

Allow it or discourage?

i have a pyrador and an oreo looking dog idk what he is mixed with any ideas

Hello, ive been trying to figure out what toys to get my dog. Ive gotten a few ropes, balls, and a stuffed animal but he seems to have no interest with any of them. He loves to play with his old harness tho, he'll play tug a war, fetch, and just chew on it like its a toy. Now I dont mind him chewing on his old harness because it was broke anyway (we cut off the plastic parts so he cant ingest those) but i want to get him more toys as well. Im wondering what toys I could try to get him that would give him that same enjoyment as playing with the harness. Thank you!

Hiya. My partner and I are adopting an adult Shih Tzu this week. We are not first time dog owners but plan to do group dog manners classes, and have found a wonderful CCPDT force free trainer near us who several rescue groups recommend.

The next class for Adult Manners 101 (thats not what the class is called, but it’s that same idea) starts exactly two weeks after we bring this pup home.

Unfortunately we don’t know much about this dog except that she’s been dog tested at the shelter and did well with other dogs, and she’s about 3 years old. No idea if she’s house trained or even where she lived before, and we don’t want to overwhelm her.

Would it be better to
1) wait for the next class in six or seven weeks

2) take our chances and sign up

3) wait a week and learn what she is like before deciding. If this option, how will we know if we should sign up for the earlier class or wait?

Appreciate any insight!

For me, a Chihuahua

How much is dog walking service in your area?

I just looked at my neighborhood's dog walking service and it costs $20 for a 30-min walk! Maybe I'm just not keeping up with times since I don't need to outsource it yet, but wow. If a dogwalker combines at least 2 dogs in that timeframe, they make $40 in an hour (possibly not taxed) and even includes their own commute to the houses. $20 is also the flat rate and increases from there depending on size, behavior, special requests, etc.

I love my dayjob but wow I wanna walk dogs for a living now =))

So during the day I hear my dog doing something resembling a sigh like humans do. Does that mean he's bored? Or is it just a normal thing dogs do. He does that when he's layed down on our couch

(Please don't mind the flair I wasn't sure which one was the best)

Hi! I'm currently dogsitting a dog I've watched a few times before, who belongs to a family member.

It took like 2 days the first time for her to warm up to me (including one very anxious and whale-eyed first day) but now she very much wants to live in my skin... I THINK. My only concern is that sometimes when I'm petting her or she's laying on me (she's like 60 pounds lol) she licks her lips. I always thought that was a sign of nervousness or aggression, but when I stop petting her, she paws at me and digs her nose in until I start again. Dogs in general make me nervous so I may just be looking too far into her body language, especially when faced with her physical behavior, but yknow.

She also won't eat unless I sit there with her and tell her it's okay. She's also a big excited (submission?) pee-er, so I've learned to let her out before greeting her outside when I get back to the house so she pees out there. I just want to make sure I'm not stressing her out. Her people are back Thursday morning but I'm watching her again in September.

Sorry I'm not sure if its the right flair. Just wondering about people's experiences with this and if its helped. Also how expenses have been etc.

For context im 26F based in the UK.

Very often when I’m placing my dogs food bowl down she turns her head to the side quick nods at me and then turns her head straight again to eat. It feels like she’s nodding at me and saying thank you quickly. Is this a thing or am I crazy?

Edit: I’m going to visit my baby girl! I feared I was being selfish by wanting to visit, but it seems I just over analyzed the situation. I appreciate all the kind feedback!

Hi everyone. I just wanted to get some opinions on what others would do in my situation. My baby girl is sick and being kept at the vet for observation for 2-3 days. She has never spent a night away from home. I miss her terribly, and I am afraid she will think she’s been abandoned, again. She’s a rescue and was at the shelter for months before we adopted her. She is the best girl. She is so sweet and snuggly and she doesn’t leave my side when I am home. They told me I can come visit her, but I’m unsure if I should. Would it just confuse her? I can’t help but think the only thing worse than her thinking she’s been abandoned and eventually finding out she wasn’t, would be to think she was getting picked up and then we left her there again… what would you do? It feels like either decision is the wrong one.

Does anyone else’s doggo do this!? We didn’t teach her this she just started doing it one day. It’s not every night. But it’s 5/6 nights out of the week!

We always wonder what it really means. IS it her way of giving us affection or is it something else lol!
She’s a pitty mix rescue.

Mines walking towards a drawer where next doors keys are kept. In his head this means we're going to also get next doors dog and go for a walk and so he starts spinning in circles.

Hi everyone!

So I have a 14yo Shih Tzu who while definitely has aging signs (cataracts, hearing loss) he still seems pretty spry physically. He is not crate trained and sleeps in bed with us. He has been a pee pad dog for a long time as we currently live in a tall apartment building but has no issues going outside when we do take him out.

We finally are moving into a house in a couple weeks which means he will now be able to consistently be taken out to go pee/poo.

I’m torn on whether we should still have a back up spot that has pee pads for 1. When we possibly are away for longer than he will hold it and 2. We free feed so sometimes in the night he will eat and then go pee before coming back to bed. (I do know I can start taking his food/water away early to help prevent middle of the night bathroom breaks) but I’ve noticed as he’s aged, his aim sometimes hasn’t been the greatest and pees on the edge of the pad which sometimes leaks.

If I do end up with pee pads as a back up I may look into something they can go on that will protect the floor but from previous experience I know he sometimes wouldn’t use them if I placed them on something.

Would love opinions on what you would do in my situation! I already know a new home is going to be a big, stressful change for him so I’m hoping to figure something out that is best for him but also prevents our floors from getting destroyed (if pee pads still make the most sense).

What do you do when your dog won’t stop barking?

Since the fi collar is put together with magnets, would you trust it connected to the leash? Worst case scenario, say the dog pulls pretty bad on leash. Will the mechanism holding it together fail?

I was given a new dog yesterday, and rescued pitty mix. Hes the Sweetest boy. He's also afraid to come inside through a doorway. Once he goes outside I basically have to drag him back in, and it's not because he wants to stay outside, he just appears to hate doors?

I've tried trails of snacks, which work to a point, he'll follow them until he's all the way inside, but still in the sweep of the door, then skitter back out.

Any ideas how I can convince him he's welcome inside, and get him used to the idea that the door won't hurt him?

Hi hi!

I recently rescued a 25 pound angel baby (missing her right front leg) and the rescue provided a harness. It seems to be doing an okay job, but just curious if there's a better one out there!

Thank you so much for your help!

Granted, we've had this little guy for less than a week, so it might be a matter of settling in, but our shih tzu, while he does well walking on leash following us, doesn't want to pee. He won't explore, instead keeping all his attention on whoever has the leash. Even if we don't move, he just sits there. When we let him outside and even carry him to the grass, he just runs to the door begging to be let in and barks if you can't be seen. We had two dogs before this, and you couldn't stop them from marking everything and exploring so teaching potty wasn't an issue. I'm kinda at a loss for how to get him to pee outside; it seems like it should be so natural for him. I'm writing this bc I don't want him to get used to peeing inside, which he's already done quite a bit. It seems he only wants to go when no one is around, but there's no way to give him access to outside without one of us opening the door (which then sets off his fixation on us). He peed once outside when he first got here, and I praised him a lot, but he hasn't done it again so I can't reinforce that behavior.

Hi everyone! I recently adopted my first dog as a solo dog owner, and I’m looking for some advice.
The first few days I had her, I was on vacation from work, so I got to spend three full days at home with her and took her on lots of walks. Now, anytime I start getting dressed, she assumes I’m getting ready to take her for a walk and starts freaking out.
Unfortunately, this also happens when I’m getting ready for work, and it breaks both of our hearts when she realizes she’s not going for a walk and I have to put her in her kennel so I can leave.
Does anyone have any ideas for how I can stop her from associating me getting dressed with walk time? I walk her with a harness, so once she sees me grab that or the leash, she knows for sure that it’s walk time and gets really excited. But I’d love for her to stop getting her hopes up every time I put on a pair of pants lol.
Thanks in advance for any advice!!

I'm currently working on desensitizing my very skittish new dog to having the leash clipped on, but I have to take her to the vet in 2 days, and the whole process including the car, leash etc is terrifying for her, it's definitely going to set her back in terms of fear and trust.

Wondering if I should skip the desensitizing tomorrow (day before the vet)?

I'm definitely gonna skip the day afterwards, and start from the beginning (hand touching collar, etc) to see what she's comfortable with..

I just made great progress today and was able to clip on a tiny leash attachment loop onto her collar for a few seconds without her stepping away!

For the vet I'm going to use a random cloth tie as a leash so it hopefully doesn't create an association with the actual leash...